Rule2025-17903
Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Summer Flounder Fishery; Quota Transfer From North Carolina to New York
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Published
September 16, 2025
Effective
September 15, 2025
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Abstract
NMFS announces that the State of North Carolina is transferring a portion of its 2025 commercial summer flounder quota to the State of New York. This adjustment to the 2025 fishing year quota is necessary to comply with the Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan (FMP) quota transfer provisions. This announcement informs the public of the revised 2025 commercial quotas for North Carolina and New York.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 177 (Tuesday, September 16, 2025)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 44582-44583]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-17903]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
50 CFR Part 648
[Docket No. 241203-0308; RTID 0648-XF177]
Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Summer Flounder
Fishery; Quota Transfer From North Carolina to New York
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Temporary rule; quota transfer.
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SUMMARY: NMFS announces that the State of North Carolina is
transferring a portion of its 2025 commercial summer flounder quota to
the State of New York. This adjustment to the 2025 fishing year quota
is necessary to comply with the Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea
Bass Fishery Management Plan (FMP) quota transfer provisions. This
announcement informs the public of the revised 2025 commercial quotas
for North Carolina and New York.
DATES: Effective September 15, 2025, through December 31, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Matthew Rigdon, Fishery Management
Specialist, (978) 281-9336.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Regulations governing the summer flounder
fishery are found in 50 CFR 648.100 through 648.111. These regulations
require annual specification of a commercial quota that is apportioned
among the coastal states from Maine through North Carolina. The process
to set the annual commercial quota and the percent allocated to each
state is described in Sec. 648.102, and the final 2025 allocations
were published on December 10, 2024 (89 FR 99138).
The final rule implementing Amendment 5 to the FMP, as published in
the Federal Register on December 17, 1993 (58 FR 65936), provided a
mechanism for transferring summer
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flounder commercial quota from one state to another. Two or more
states, under mutual agreement and with the concurrence of the NMFS
Greater Atlantic Regional Administrator, can transfer or combine summer
flounder commercial quota under Sec. 648.102(c)(2). The Regional
Administrator is required to consider three criteria in the evaluation
of requests for quota transfers or combinations: (1) the transfers or
combinations would not preclude the overall annual quota from being
fully harvested; (2) the transfers address an unforeseen variation or
contingency in the fishery; and (3) the transfers are consistent with
the objectives of the FMP and the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation
and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act). The Regional Administrator
has determined these three criteria have been met for the transfer
approved in this notification.
North Carolina is transferring 50,000 pounds (lb; 22,680 kilograms
(kg)) of summer flounder to New York through a mutual agreement between
the states. This transfer was requested to ensure New York would not
exceed its 2025 quota. The revised summer flounder quotas for 2025 are:
North Carolina, 2,358,106 lb (1,069,619 kg); and New York, 722,157 lb
(327,565 kg).
Classification
NMFS issues this action pursuant to section 305(d) of the Magnuson-
Stevens Act. This action is required by 50 CFR 648.102(c)(2)(i) through
(iv), which was issued pursuant to section 304(b) of the Magnuson-
Stevens Act, and is exempted from review under Executive Order 12866.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: September 12, 2025.
Kelly Denit,
Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries
Service.
[FR Doc. 2025-17903 Filed 9-15-25; 8:45 am]
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